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FRIENDLY SOCIETIES
DECIMAL CURRENCY
Made
30th June 1969
Laid before Parliament
9th July 1969
Coming into Operation
10th July 1969
The Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies pursuant to the powers conferred upon him by section 6(6) of the Decimal Currency Act 1969 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Regulations:—
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Friendly Societies (Halfpenny) Regulations 1969 and shall come into operation on 10th July 1969.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
(3) In these Regulations—
“registered friendly society” and “society” means
“collecting society”
2.—(1) This regulation applies to a payment payable to a registered friendly society, not being a collecting society, under a contract made by the society with a member of the society in the course of its business in Great Britain, whether contained in the society's rules or not, which is one of a series of payments payable periodically of an amount which, apart from this regulation, would be or include a halfpenny.
(2) Successive payments in a series, being each a payment to which this regulation applies and beginning with the first of such successive payments which falls due on or after 1st August 1969, shall be alternately reduced and increased in that order by the amount of a halfpenny and accordingly when such successive payments would be, but for this regulation, each of an amount of a halfpenny no amount shall be payable in respect of the first payment of every two such successive payments in the series beginning as aforesaid.
S. D. Musson
Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies
30th June 1969
These Regulations are consequent upon the halfpenny ceasing to be legal tender on the 1st August 1969 and provide that periodical payments payable by a member to a registered friendly society which are of or include a halfpenny shall as from that date be reduced and increased alternately by a halfpenny.
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